- This is the Corsair One, and even though I'm usually more, shall we say, into custom built systems, pre-built or not, this is an impressively stout piece of kit given its size, cooling, and noise level. So much so that it's something
that I've always wanted to replicate with a custom-built PC. And today might be the day. Behind me is the Louqe RAW S1. It's not exactly a Corsair One. For instance, it relies on air cooling rather than AIO liquid coolers. And it's actually just a case that you can fill with
whatever hardware you want, ah there we, ooh, but it's
apparently got the cojones to fit full fat top of the line gear. And today we're gonna do
pretty much exactly that. 5900X, 3080, this tiny package. (high pitched laughing)
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iFixit wants to make it easier for you to keep your devices working. So stay tuned at the end of the video to learn more about iFixit's toolkits. (upbeat music) (electronic tapping) (thumping techno music) I am really excited to see this. Honestly, for how good
the Corsair One looks, and for how well it works, I'm surprised it's taken this long for someone to make a Corsair One-a-like. Now how close did they get
in terms of the size though? Because that's what Corsair did that's pretty freaking magic. Wow, darn close. Almost as though their engineers set out with the target of
building something the size of the Corsair One. (laughs) Whatever resemblance they
bear to each other externally, though, these are very different products. Make no mistake. The Corsair One, even though Corsair is a case manufacturer, is
not available as a case. And a big part of the reason for that is that it is not very
user-friendly to build in. So even though Louqe, I've
been told it's pronounced, did go and build something
that obviously achieves a very similar form factor, whether or not they manage
to make it user-friendly is an entirely separate matter. I will say this much. It definitely doesn't have
the (tapping) fit and finish of the Corsair One, but the Corsair One's
also really expensive. Also doesn't have the
IO of the Corsair One. You got your front USB 3,
you got your front HDMI for that VR revolution that's
definitely about to happen. (David laughs)
(laughs) Be nice, David. Whereas on the Louqe, there's just a power button in the front. And then you've got two USB Type-Cs, only one of which is actually
connected to anything, and they're at the back. Wait a minute, where the
hell is my motherboard? Oh, it's one of those, it's on the bottom. That worked great, iFixit
being the sponsor today, and Louqe making a case that
you need a Torx to open. Thank you for that. In fairness, Louqe does include this, so that you can open the torque screws, but like it would be better
to just have a Phillips head like every other computer case
on the face of the planet. So it's 329, but it
comes with a Gen 4 riser, which means you can run
your Gen 4 graphics card at full speed, which is anywhere
from a 60 to a $90 value. So it's still pretty expensive, but these small run
small form factor cases are often priced higher
than you might think. This is pretty cool. The reason you've got these clips here is that this is actually
a modular IO system. You could also replace your power button. I mean, at least if something
broke you can replace it. - [Jake] Like as long as the
power button isn't like glued into the case, I'm happy.
- Ah there we go. All right. Got a nice orange accent. Are you guys sucking up? Jokes about infinite FPS aside, this thing is freaking sweet. So it uses a high temp extruded jacket with a twinax shielding, silver plated solid
copper conductors inside that as a complete package can apparently exceed the PCI Express Gen
4 spec, nevermind meet it. I like the high temp resistance 'cause we're gonna put a RTX
3080 in here (chuckles) so (tapping) gonna need that. Nice and low profile
too, that's really nice. Enough about that though, let's meet the rest of our components starting with the ROG Strix X570-I Gaming. Now this isn't, technically speaking, the flagship small form
factor board in ASUS's lineup for Socket AM4, but the
reason we went with it is that the Crosshair VIII
Impact is actually DTX or like a longer version of ITX. So it's about this much longer,
which in a case like this, as you can plainly see,
would not freaking fit. Of course, being an enthusiast board with an 8 + 2 phase, not to mention surprisingly
well-cooled power delivery, and support for PCI Express Gen 4, we wanted to take full advantage of that with an AMD Ryzen 9 5,900X. 12 freaking cores, 24 freaking threads, basically the best performance
for gaming on the market. And assuming you can get one at MSRP, it's more than $100 cheaper
than Intel's 12-core 10920X. But then again, Intel has yet to release an
11th Gen Extreme Edition. Are they even gonna bother at this point? - [Jake] I don't know. - I don't know, that's a little awkward. For RAM, we've gone with a
relatively unusual choice for us. A lot of the time we like to go, you know, RGB blinged out all over the place, but instead we've gone with Corsair's LPX 3,600 megahertz CL16 in a 2 by 16 gig configuration. And the reason for that is the LP in LPX stands for low profile. This way, we get all
the speed that we need without compromising on
clearance for our CPU cooler. This is the NH-L12S,
this is Noctua's solution for people who need a slim cooler that can fit in a really low profile case, but still want that big
chungus cooling performance. So it uses a slim version of
their popular NF-A series fan. And then this is interesting. By default, it actually
comes with the fan configured to take air from around the
CPU socket and blow it up, which on many of these types of cases is typically intended to
be used as an exhaust. But for us, we're actually
going to turn it around, so it'll act as an intake
for the case, but not yet. First, we actually need to remove a couple of
pieces of the motherboard. It's all minor stuff, just this little cosmetic
facia piece right here, and that should be good enough. Now, unfortunately, Louqe
didn't release it in time for us to request parts for this video, but fortunately for you, they actually did a grand CPU
cooler test for this case, and it turns out the Noctua
NH-L12 Ghost S1 edition, there's actually made for
one of their other cases is the best cooler for this case as well. And the main difference with that one is that it's a little bit shorter, and then uses a 92
millimeter on the bottom. And then you can add a slim
120 millimeters to the top, so you get that push-pull action. But this one is still pretty darn good. So we're not too worried about it. Let's get some thermal compound on here. - [Jake] So is your new
place's backyard big? - Oh, hold on, we're
video making, just a sec. (Jake laughing) We're just like chitchating here. I had bought a new place, so Jake's like, "Hey, you know, when COVID's done, we could all have like a
backyard barbecue there," and yes, I'm super down. We could totally do that
for our Christmas party. We haven't had our Christmas party yet. - [Jake] Yeah, we might be
able to do it in like August. - It'll be my birthday, Christmas party. - [David] What are you turning? 42? (David and Jake laughing) - Let's get our fan in here. There we go, now you might be wondering, well, gee Linus, if it performs better if you have another slim on the top, why don't you just do that? Okay, we thought of that, unfortunately, because of how low profile the case is, you can't fit another one. Now let's throw in our SSD. Just like the rest of the system, we've gone PCI Express Gen 4 here with Sabrent's Rocket 4+, wait a minute, this isn't the QLC one is it? No, this is the like baller fast one. - [Jake] Yeah, that's the one
that has the new controller. - Oh sick! It's fully capable of
saturating a Gen 4 link. And because it uses high quality NAND and a newer controller, it's gonna perform well in
basically any situation. Wow, I didn't even notice
the second fan down here for the chip set. What that hell, I love it,
yeah it's a super cool board. Weird motherboards screws,
they're like super long, even though the standoffs
are kind of a normal length, but-
- But they go deep. - Yeah, it works fine. And that's it, like, that's how much space
you got ladies and gentlemen, it's freaking tight. Of course, since Corsair
makes basically everything, even when you don't buy their system, they still find a way to get ya, we're using a Corsair SF750 power supply, it's 80 PLUS Platinum
certified, it's fully modular. It's super small, 750 watts
did I mentioned that already? We're gonna go ahead and pop
this bad boy right about here. Jake informs me that
I put the power supply in too early because my
exhaust fan goes here, and that I will have to
take the power supply out in order to install it. I reject his reality
and I substitute my own. So I'm going to take this bracket off. (Jake and Linus laughing) And try to mount the
fan and put it back in. Gotta have fun, you
build enough computers, you gotta find your own new challenges. Yeah this puppy can probably go back here. Oh, I like that, actually. So the way the power supply's mounted, it goes right up against the side, which means it's a little easier for it to grab that nice, fresh air. And it gives you some space
behind the power supply to stash these cables. The bad news is I'm gonna
have a real hard time accessing the front panel
connectors, you know, for the power switch, power LED, hard drive LED, reset switch. The good news is there's
only a power switch. There's literally not even
a power LED on the case. So let's go ahead and let's
see if we can get this in here. Just gotta kinda give
it a little bendy bend, and then I just realized, I was thinking where's the
front panel USB 3 right? Like we have a front panel connector. No, no, no, no, this cable just plugs into the back of your
motherboard if you have a Type-C and then that's a pass through. That's not amazing. Now let's find out if I can
install this fan on this thing. And then somehow this
feels like one of those like brain teaser things. Wait, which goes on this way.
- Jesus Christ. (laughs) Is it set up as an exhaust? Did you do that part properly? - I don't know, are you exhausted yet? - No, I can handle a little more. - (laughs) Wait, crap, did
I put this on the right way? Yeah, I did, okay, Jesus. Not bad, eh? - [David] Yeah, that looks pretty good! - Graphics card time? - Sure.
- As for why we went with an RTX 3080 TUF from ASUS, Louqe has a list of cards that fit. This 3080 and actually the TUF 3090 fit. Oh, I'm sorry, did you
want more of a story there? If it fits, it sits? (laughs) Is that good enough? Okay, but in all seriousness, the reason we went 3080
was because we were trying to match the spec of the Corsair One that actually was just
released with Ryzen Fifth Gen and RTX 3080 as the top spec. You know what's kinda
crazy about this thing? While the build quality
is just not up to par with the Corsair One,
the ease of use, great! This was such an easy build for a small form factor. - Right?
- Yeah. I love it, they did just
a bang up job of it. I mean, even this, this weird little like
thumb nut thing down here that I was trying to figure out earlier, and I was like, "Oh what
the heck is this thing for?" Check this out! So you just slide the card
into the PCI Express slot, and there it goes, tighten this down. Boom! Your card's sort of held in place. (rig jiggling) That's awesome! All right.
- I (beep) my pants walking home one time. (David and Jake laughing) - I'm just gonna go
ahead and plug this in. We've gotten a little off topic here. We gotta turn on the power supply now because once the case is slid over here, we're not gonna have access
to that button anymore. And that's it, that's the computer! - That's dense.
- Look at this. It's like, this feels like
a sci-fi movie or some crap. It's like, you gotta pull it out, and you gotta (imitates gears crunching) and put it in this way, and then. (pitch lowering)
(explosion fires) Of course, we gotta take
a look at the thermals before we declare this
thing a victory here, because while the case does
have a pretty similar amount of speed holes compared
to the Corsair One, it kinda seems like
there's more aluminum left. And it's air-cooled, so
let's give it a shot here. So I guess it goes in this way, 'cause that's the power button there. - [Jake] Yep, and there's
like rails that it slides in. (Linus groans) Um, um, um, oh wow, I nailed that. - [Jake] And then just
be careful of the riser as it comes down.
- Go Linus. Wow, and it's not just easy to build, it's easy to build without
it being just like impossible to have the cable sticking
into the fans and stuff. - [Jake] The power button, oh my God. - Oh, is the power button
a little, oh, okay. So there are some quality
of life improvements they could make, I guess. - [Jake] He just rusted the
weight of the entire computer on the power button. - Yeah, and look how well it... (button clicking) Oh no, it's good, it's
good, I think it's good. Okay, so plug that in there. So here, I'm showing you
the ingenious (snorts) front IO system. (upbeat music) Get the thing in there.
- Try the other side? - Okay, we're good. There's our super good ease
of use front IO access. There you go. I mean, it doesn't look bad from the back. We've seen cases like this before. I mean back SilverStone's first RAVEN had the motherboard rotated 90 degrees, and you plugged everything in on the top, and it went down a thing and out the back, So, I mean it's all right. I think the color could
be a little bit better in terms of, you know, look on the desk compared to the Corsair One,
but full marks ease of use. If we hadn't just been
like bull(beep) be around for the last three hours,
we could have been done this in I don't know what, 45 minutes?
- A half an hour. Yeah.
- Like, it's a pretty easy build. - [Jake] If you had everything
mounted to the motherboard, you would be done in like five
minutes if you really tried. - I can't tell if it's on or not yet. - [Jake] Did you break it or something? - Let me just tilt this down
on my nice soft place to rest at lttstore.com. - [Jake] Suffocate the GPU a little bit. - Huh, oh, (claps) there's your problem. (Jake laughing)
Woo! - [Jake] I know how to build the computer. - Well, this isn't building a computer. This is plugging in the display
connector to a computer. Here we go, ladies and gentlemen. 32 gigs RAM, CPU's picked up,
SSD's picked up, great news. Let's just go ahead and set
the DOCP 3,600 megahertz. Firing up our game now. One key difference
between the Louqe RAW S1 and the Corsair One that we're
kinda sorta comparing it to is the airflow path. So with the Corsair,
you're drawing everything in these two radiators on the side, 'kay, and then it all goes up the top kind of probably maybe inspired
by the trashcan Mac Pro. With the RAW S1, it's a
totally different airflow path because the top is
actually mostly enclosed. So you've got these open sides, so your graphics card pulls
in this nice fresh air from outside, mostly, 'cause it's kinda kicking
that hot air around inside, and it's gonna intermingle a little bit. And then over on the other
side, we're using our CPU and our power supply as an intake. And then we've got this single Noctua fan exhausting out the back. So I'm expecting a lot
of heat to come out here, and that could be a bit of
a cooling bottleneck for us. - [Jake] Is it getting louder? - It's not bad at all, actually. - Oh, I suck.
- Chainsaw, chainsaw. - I suck, I suck. Insufficient fuel? Wait,
what just happened? - [David] You might have
to wait a little bit because it recharges. - Oh does it? ♪ Doo doo doo doo there we go ♪
- Up. - So yeah, change out the first one. Get him. - Coach David's helping me out! - I'm on Fiverr.
- Bow, bow, bow, bow, bow! Oh I thought I got it.
- Oh my God. - [Linus] Curse you. Oh
no I'm in trouble now. Come on, come on, come on! - Nice.
- Nice, nice. - We are maxed out at 78 degrees, 79, just over 80 on our hottest CCD. CPU-reported temperatures
are just over 80. That is extremely respectable for a game that runs at such a high
FPS, like "DOOM Eternal". As for our GPU, wow! Not bad! 87 tops for our hotspot,
that's super respectable! Memory up around 90. Dang.
- Damn! - It's not even crazy loud. Ooh, it's warm though. Wow, that exhaust is as
anticipated, pretty toasty. But other than the kind of green color, I think I'd love to see
some different editions to this case in different
finishes and different colors, I think this thing's will win. So easy to build though.
- Yeah. - Like nothing else quite like it. So great job, Louqe, and great job me for telling you about our sponsor. Thanks iFixit for
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crazy water-cooled build that Jake did like a thousand years ago. That was a sick build. - That was a sick build, I know that one. It had a TITAN RTX.
With all the complaints about their shoddy quality control and poor customer service, getting featured on LTT is probably as good of a PR boon as it gets for Louqe, whether deserved or not.
Temps seem not as bad as first thought, but the case gets hot as pointed out. And case quality is not as nice as even a Corsair One is kinda funny TBH.
They've been doing more SFF builds in the last year or so. Feels like someone on the team is on the same drug as us.
Not a fan of the RAW esthetic vs the Ghost, but I was pretty shook to hear Linus say the fit and finish wasn't as good as the Corsair. Isn't that Louqe's thing?
Can tell Linus having Winter One build PTSD...
Still wonder what it looks like and what the thermals are with the optional 140mm on the top.
The Corsair case looks like rubbish. Although I'm not a fan of the industrial look of the RAW, I appreciate Louqe trying something new and not just aiming toward the minimal, lifestyle design aesthetic of the S1 (even though I prefer it). It would be interesting to see Louqe make a wider version of the RAW that supported radiators, but keep that center spine hight and depth.
I'm surprised Louqe hasn't iterated on the S1 and blown it out into a few product lines by offering vertical stands/cases or different mesh and panel options that still feel part of the S1 ecosystem, while keeping RAW a separate product line. Seems like there is plenty of business / product opportunities still locked up in the S1 case.
Im starting to like this case but the price.....instantly makes it a no. Wish they did the Raw with the same style as the Ghost S1.
Hardware Canucks reviewed it - https://youtu.be/FSSip5uFJBI